[Oh, you guys-- he gets it. He really does. He'd felt the same way for a while, but someone had changed his mind about magic. Give it a year surrounded by people with abnormal abilities and you change your mind about a lot of things.

And... he'll take any extra means offered to him to protect himself nowadays.]

Yeah. It can hold up under a strike. [...] Not for very long enough, but long enough. I'm hoping that after more training, it'll be enough in case there's ever a time someone's coming after me with a gun. [Again.]